Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[no fly zone]

Could they be a pair and this is the female? I still wonder if she’s pregnant.

Always a possibility. I hope to catch both of them before we sell this place.

 

[micstrachan]

Lovely afternoon here in Bristol. I left the flat earlier than usual so I could clean up the rubbish on my allotment plot and start digging it over. Chickens got three hours out this afternoon.
Matilda isn't the full ticket. She ate okay but was on the subdued side. I'm going to have to grab her tomorrow and check her over.
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Beautiful! But poor Mathilda.

First dig on the allotment patch. It needs double digging which is quite hard going. Double digging as in the depth of the spade twice.
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That’ll keep you in shape, Shad!

 

[micstrachan]

@Shadrach I watched a National Geographic show on birds of prey tonight. Goshawks are something to be reckoned with! Their agility is impressive!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

The temperature is 61 and mostly cloudy.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

Pictures from yesterday.
Lovely sunny day. C was at the allotments for most of the day I gather. The chickens and geese had at least four hours out before I got there.

 

[Perris]

the run mud floor has dried out! yay!

 

[ManueB]

Wow, I live in a semi-arid area and I’ve never had problems with getting borage to grow. And it blooms all summer for me too. I guess a very different growing climate or soil?? Granted, it does get supplemental water, like anything around here has to have unless I wanted to not have a garden at all. I guess I could grow sagebrush . .

I think not enough water may have been the issue. We have a Mediterranean climate on the low temperature range due to the mountains proximity, and rocky clay soil. The only borage that survived was in the veggies and benefited from automatic sprinkling. I thought it didn't like too much sunlight but obviously it wouldn't have been happy where you live in that case!

 

[ManueB]

What a neat looking house! We don’t have anything like that here. How would it hold up in an earthquake? I’m in earthquake country, which might be why we don’t have that sort of construction. I love it!

Thank you, but I'm sorry to say this is the house's best profile, it looks way more shabby on it's other sides!

Apart from the fact that we don't live on the same continent , I've only ever seen houses like this in four or five villages around here. Those were built with material found locally (scale and pelite) when there was only animal traction. Unfortunately, to say it nicely, they do not stand well the taste of time. The material is porous to the rain. Also, the building principles were very different from nowadays. Those houses have no foundation, the walls are not straight, but plays with the ground's slope, and everything is held together by the framework : massive larch beams and a heavy tile roof. These houses needed constant care , especially on the roof, as any small leak led to great harm, which is not something we are ready to do nowadays.

We're in the process of having the two other older houses on the property secured, their roof must be put down and redone and it's a much more heavy, risky and expensive project than we ever imagined .

Sorry this was a long off topic rambling. I'll try to find some good tax to make up for it!

 

[Solanacae]

I think not enough water may have been the issue. We have a Mediterranean climate on the low temperature range due to the mountains proximity, and rocky clay soil. The only borage that survived was in the veggies and benefited from automatic sprinkling. I thought it didn't like too much sunlight but obviously it wouldn't have been happy where you live in that case!

Mine was in full sun, so it’s clearly happy with plenty of that! I’m very overdue on tax, but I’ll pay up tomorrow when I get home from visiting family.

 

[ManueB]

Fun Tax from the past :

The girls helping us clean the hives.

Summer 2020 we rescued three ewes lost during the transhumance and had to keep them for a month with the ladies .

Winter 2021 Blanche discovered she loved a good rain / snow fall.